You might have been initiated in your teens by 'knee-sitting' in some communities, but otherwise it's not harder than introducing yourself to the gods, maybe make an altar, start sacrificing to them.
Another option are horisontal rune binds, as seen here:
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Here in Denmark we regularly sacrifice to Ejr/Eir, goddess of healing. We know she sits at Freja's knee, and may actually be an aspect of her - but the point is, she's a master of healing, and will help us turn the tide.
The giants are much more connected to the material world than, for example, the aesir. See the myth of Thor's fishing trip, for example. The wise Hymir, knowing that actually catching Jormungandr could bring about the end of the world, cuts the fishing rope before Thor can slay the serpent. Such...
There can definitely be a 'great spirit' or 'great spirits' within heathenry, though, I would argue, not within the worship of the aesir specifically (barring, perhaps, syncretic religions that see Odin, Njord or Frej as the great male principle). Within the vanir or other gods, however, that's...
Interesting and well put questions! I will endeavor to answer them as I understand them.
Like many members of polytheist pagan faiths, I don't necessarily not believe Jesus was an incarnation of the Abrahamic God, nor do I not necessarily believe the Abrahamic God does not exist, I just don't...
Chill out, Salvatore :) (Gods help me, I love that movie, in all it's campy drama overload)
This is more or less the vedic (or buddhist/hindu) take on things. I suppose the faiths are not so different after all..
Early christendom had this belief as well. Gnostics, cathars, albigensians and others sect thought there were two creators, a spiritual realm of good things made by God, and an inherently corrupt material realm created by a negative force.
Tesla is run by a carnival charlatan who keeps writing checks with his mouth his company can't cash. It's only rampant corruption and legal wrangling that keeps that ****house of a 'auto' company afloat..
I'm not sure I expressed it clearly, then. I'm saying that the gods have been different things to different people in different time periods - not through their actions, but through the historical needs of their communities and the political developments around them.
Odin, for example, was not...
Not to play Loke's Advocate here, but the reason there's "no issues" is that the canon was all written at the same time, wherein the gods had one specific portfolio. Religious historians are pretty sure all gods have changed names, jobs and even been split up or laid together over time...
Indescribable! I shall try to do it justice with this video of armoured guys in a moshpit: Viking moshpit at Midgårdsblot 2019 in... - FlamesJocke89 Photography | Facebook
No, seriously. There was a large opening blót, where blood was offered to a statue to Frej, and it ended with a large...
That's a false equivalency. Left wing extremists can opt to employ violence or not to further their goals, to right wing extremism, violence against immigrants, gays and socialists IS the end goal. Their belief is the extermination of what they perceive as subhumans, left wing extremism has no...
No, I can also help protect LBGT folks and people of colour from the depredations of völkisch violence. Speaking words do nothing to curb the expansion of white supremacist ideology in heathenry, a problem that is growing every day. I will fight them in whatever practical way I can, because they...
Because the nucleus surrounded by little "planetary rings' of electrons is still a commonly used symbol for atoms in many places. I think schools are just now converting to the "electron cloud" model, which is a bit more accessible.